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Architecture: Form, Space, & Order (Paperback)
by (shelved 897 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.29 — 4,071 ratings — published 1979
Towards a New Architecture (Paperback)
by (shelved 767 times as architecture)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,022 ratings — published 1923
The Architecture of Happiness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 741 times as architecture)
avg rating 3.86 — 14,747 ratings — published 2006
101 Things I Learned in Architecture School (Hardcover)
by (shelved 730 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.07 — 5,811 ratings — published 2006
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
by (shelved 728 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.42 — 5,501 ratings — published 1977
Thinking Architecture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 678 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.23 — 3,683 ratings — published 1998
The Poetics of Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 677 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.17 — 11,443 ratings — published 1957
The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses (Paperback)
by (shelved 647 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.37 — 4,537 ratings — published 1996
The Death and Life of Great American Cities (Hardcover)
by (shelved 618 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.29 — 20,419 ratings — published 1961
The Ten Books on Architecture (Paperback)
by (shelved 546 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.04 — 2,770 ratings — published -15
In Praise of Shadows (Paperback)
by (shelved 524 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.00 — 31,706 ratings — published 1933
Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture (Paperback)
by (shelved 513 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,951 ratings — published 1957
The Image of the City (Paperback)
by (shelved 481 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.05 — 4,243 ratings — published 1960
Delirious New York: A Retroactive Manifesto for Manhattan (Paperback)
by (shelved 473 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.24 — 3,754 ratings — published 1978
Atmospheres: Architectural Environments. Surrounding Objects (Hardcover)
by (shelved 407 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.43 — 2,751 ratings — published 2006
Modern Architecture: A Critical History (Paperback)
by (shelved 407 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.09 — 2,141 ratings — published 1980
Learning from Las Vegas: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form (Paperback)
by (shelved 396 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.01 — 2,621 ratings — published 1972
Experiencing Architecture (Paperback)
by (shelved 387 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.03 — 2,201 ratings — published 1959
S, M, L, XL (Hardcover)
by (shelved 384 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.25 — 1,851 ratings — published 1995
The Timeless Way of Building (Hardcover)
by (shelved 372 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.37 — 2,701 ratings — published 1978
The Architecture of the City (Oppositions Books)
by (shelved 369 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,339 ratings — published 1966
A Visual Dictionary of Architecture (Paperback)
by (shelved 364 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,750 ratings — published 1995
Brunelleschi's Dome: How a Renaissance Genius Reinvented Architecture (Paperback)
by (shelved 333 times as architecture)
avg rating 3.91 — 28,395 ratings — published 1999
Invisible Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 328 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.09 — 99,725 ratings — published 1972
How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built (Paperback)
by (shelved 316 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,889 ratings — published 1994
The Fountainhead (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 285 times as architecture)
avg rating 3.89 — 339,567 ratings — published 1943
Neufert Architects' Data, Third Edition (Paperback)
by (shelved 268 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.40 — 1,864 ratings — published 1936
Modern Architecture Since 1900 (Paperback)
by (shelved 251 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,207 ratings — published 1982
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 244 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.00 — 771,214 ratings — published 2003
Building Construction Illustrated (Paperback)
by (shelved 240 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,594 ratings — published 2014
From Bauhaus to Our House (Paperback)
by (shelved 231 times as architecture)
avg rating 3.77 — 4,277 ratings — published 1981
Architectural Graphics (Paperback)
by (shelved 222 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,094 ratings — published 1974
Yes is More: An Archicomic on Architectural Evolution (Paperback)
by (shelved 214 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,540 ratings — published 2009
The Seven Lamps of Architecture (Dover Architecture)
by (shelved 211 times as architecture)
avg rating 3.83 — 955 ratings — published 1849
The Four Books of Architecture (Paperback)
by (shelved 208 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.14 — 616 ratings — published 1570
Cities for People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 204 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,478 ratings — published 2010
The Pillars of the Earth (Kingsbridge, #1)
by (shelved 200 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.35 — 844,769 ratings — published 1989
Life Between Buildings: Using Public Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 197 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,438 ratings — published 1971
Architecture Without Architects: A Short Introduction to Non-Pedigreed Architecture (Paperback)
by (shelved 184 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.23 — 767 ratings — published 1965
Architecture As Space (Paperback)
by (shelved 178 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.00 — 743 ratings — published 1948
Space, Time and Architecture: The Growth of a New Tradition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 173 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.16 — 493 ratings — published 1941
At Home: A Short History of Private Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 163 times as architecture)
avg rating 3.99 — 99,449 ratings — published 2010
Happy City: Transforming Our Lives Through Urban Design (Hardcover)
by (shelved 162 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,625 ratings — published 2012
Genius Loci: Towards a Phenomenology of Architecture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 157 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.26 — 526 ratings — published 1979
The Thinking Hand: Existential and Embodied Wisdom in Architecture (Architectural Design Primer)
by (shelved 156 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.36 — 780 ratings — published 2009
Design Like You Give A Damn: Architectural Responses To Humanitarian Crises (Paperback)
by (shelved 155 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.12 — 853 ratings — published 2006
A Global History of Architecture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 153 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.24 — 402 ratings — published 2006
A Field Guide to American Houses (Paperback)
by (shelved 147 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.36 — 1,374 ratings — published 1984
Analysing Architecture: The universal language of place-making (Analysing Architecture Notebooks)
by (shelved 137 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.10 — 571 ratings — published 1997
A History of Architecture: Settings and Rituals (Paperback)
by (shelved 131 times as architecture)
avg rating 4.08 — 615 ratings — published 1985
“But I don’t understand. Why do you want me to think that this is great architecture? He pointed to the picture of the Parthenon.
That, said the Dean, is the Parthenon.
- So it is.
- I haven’t the time to waste on silly questions.
- All right, then. - Roark got up, he took a long ruler from the desk, he walked to the picture. - Shall I tell you what’s rotten about it?
- It’s the Parthenon! - said the Dean.
- Yes, God damn it, the Parthenon!
The ruler struck the glass over the picture.
- Look,- said Roark. - The famous flutings on the famous columns – what are they there for? To hide the joints in wood – when columns were made of wood, only these aren’t, they’re marble. The triglyphs, what are they? Wood. Wooden beams, the way they had to be laid when people began to build wooden shacks. Your Greeks took marble and they made copies of their wooden structures out of it, because others had done it that way. Then your masters of the Renaissance came along and made copies in plaster of copies in marble of copies in wood. Now here we are, making copies in steel and concrete of copies in plaster of copies in marble of copies in wood. Why?”
― The Fountainhead
That, said the Dean, is the Parthenon.
- So it is.
- I haven’t the time to waste on silly questions.
- All right, then. - Roark got up, he took a long ruler from the desk, he walked to the picture. - Shall I tell you what’s rotten about it?
- It’s the Parthenon! - said the Dean.
- Yes, God damn it, the Parthenon!
The ruler struck the glass over the picture.
- Look,- said Roark. - The famous flutings on the famous columns – what are they there for? To hide the joints in wood – when columns were made of wood, only these aren’t, they’re marble. The triglyphs, what are they? Wood. Wooden beams, the way they had to be laid when people began to build wooden shacks. Your Greeks took marble and they made copies of their wooden structures out of it, because others had done it that way. Then your masters of the Renaissance came along and made copies in plaster of copies in marble of copies in wood. Now here we are, making copies in steel and concrete of copies in plaster of copies in marble of copies in wood. Why?”
― The Fountainhead
“We used to build temples, and museums are about as close as secular society dares to go in facing up to the idea that a good building can change your life (and a bad one ruin it).”
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